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Jan 20, 2009

Top 30 news sites see growth

Nielsen Online has released December numbers for the top 30 news sites worldwide as visited by U.S. audiences. Editor & Publisher reports that most news outlets represented saw healthy growth:
The number of unique visitors to the Huff Post grew 244% to 6.1 million in December compared to the same month a year ago... Uniques at Fox News advanced 60% to 13.7 million year-over-year. The New York Daily News: Up 99% to 5.8 million. The monthly unique audience rose 55% to 4.5 million at The New York Post.
Topping the list again was the MSNBC Digital Network, which saw its year-over-year audience grow 40 percent to 40.4 million.
In fact, the top seven organizations remained the same. Google News was the first to slip; it fell from eighth place with 14.4 million in November to 12th place with 10.7 million in December.
The highest-ranking foreign news outlet was the BBC, which stayed in 15th place, rising 11 percent year-over-year to 8.3 million unique visitors.

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